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pro vyhledávání: '"A. Broke"'
Autor:
Michael Stein
In this age of shortened office visits, doctors take care of their patients'immediate needs and often elide their own personal histories. But as reflected in Broke, Michael Stein takes the time to listen to the experiences of his patients whose finan
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Caryn Rivadeneira
'Broke was not in the cards for me.... Girls—then women—like us stay strong through it all. A little (or big) financial setback doesn't break us. Or our connection to God.'And yet, God let Caryn Rivadeneira and her family go dead broke.In the mid
Autor:
Katherine Porter
About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushed more and more families into financial collapse—with unemployment, declines in retirement wealth,
Autor:
Francesco Duina
Why are poor Americans so patriotic? They have significantly worse social benefits compared to other Western nations, and studies show that the American Dream of upward mobility is, for them, largely a myth. So why do these people love their country?
Autor:
Tom Clark
Over a dozen years into austerity, statistical warning lights are flashing to suggest a return to types of deprivation we once imagined we had consigned to history. In the decade up to the pandemic, the official count of rough sleepers and recorded m
Autor:
Laura T. Hamilton, Kelly Nielsen
Public research universities were previously able to provide excellent education to white families thanks to healthy government funding. However, that funding has all but dried up in recent decades as historically underrepresented students have gaine
Autor:
Jodie Adams Kirshner
'Essential...in showcasing people who are persistent, clever, flawed, loving, struggling and full of contradictions, Broke affirms why it's worth solving the hardest problems in our most challenging cities in the first place.'—Anna Clark, The New Y
Autor:
Alissa Quart, David Wallis
A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans.Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Projec
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George, Kaye
Imogene Duckworthy, eager PI assistant, wants to be on her own. She finds a rental house where her four-year-old daughter, Nancy Drew Duckworthy, and Drew's pet pig, Marshmallow, are allowed. The rumors are that the house is haunted. It's no rumor th